Banking on Global Markets - Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present

Klappentext This book looks at the US business and political dealings of Deutsche Bank to illuminate developments in the globalization of major financial institutions. Zusammenfassung The US business and political dealings of Deutsche Bank are used here to illuminate developments in the ongoing globalization of major financial institutions. Deutsche Bank was one of Germany's principal vehicles for forging links with the rest of the world! and its involvement with the US was probably its biggest challenge. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Overview of the title and terrain; Part I. On Golden Chariots - Deutsche Bank's US Business 1870 to 1914: 2. First steps; 3. Deutsche Bank and American electrification; 4. The Northern Pacific bankruptcy saga; 5. The fallout; 6. Other transportation and commercial investments; 7. A taste for start-ups; 8. Transitions; Part II. Deutsche Bank and the US During 'Great Disorder' - 1914-57: 9. Personal, communication, and financial breakdowns; 10. War supplies, espionage, and expropriation; 11. Salvaging assets and business prophets in the war's immediate aftermath; 12. Deutsche Bank and reestablishing financial flows; 13. Deutsche Bank and the collapse of the fragile world economic order; 14. Second Phoenix; Part III. Renewal and Re-entry - 1957-2000: 15. Divisive issues and the making of a new financial landscape; 16. From Abs to Kopper and from joint ventures to branching; 17. Bankers' trust; 18. Postscript: Deutsche Bank in the US and the future of multinational banking.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Kobrak, Kobrak Christopher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2012
• EAN: 9781107411807
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41180-7
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Emerg; Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Banks & Banking, Banking, Economic history, International Economics, United States of America, USA, International Finance